Creativity & Cognition Conferences
Dr. Linda Candy is a researcher in practice-led methods for studying creativity in the arts and sciences. She writes articles about the creative process, collaborative work, the role of computer support and the methodologies for investigating these areas of research. She has a Bachelor of Arts, a Masters in Computer Aided Learning and a doctorate in Computer Science.
Linda is a co-founder of the Creativity and Cognition conference series sponsored by the ACM and is active in promoting awareness about creativity support environments in the arts, computing and design communities. She is an editorial board member of the Behaviour and Information Technology and Knowledge Based Systems journals and has guest edited special issues on her subject area in Leonardo, Design Studies and the International Journal of Human Computer Interaction. She has been a member of a number of international conference programme committees and has presented her work in the UK, Europe, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and the USA.
In March 2003, Linda moved to Sydney where she is presently an honorary research fellow and a member of the Creativity and Cognition Research Studios at the University of Technology where she supervises practice-based PhD programmes and advises on the evaluation of interactive art installations. Prior to this, she was a senior research fellow in the Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition at the University of Sydney. In the UK, she was principal scientist for COSTART: 'Studies of Computer Support for Creative Work: Artists and Technologists in Collaboration' a project which investigated the role of collaboration between artists and technologists and was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.